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  • And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"   (source)
  • And so, despite the fact that he was a Roman centurion, he converted to their faith.†   (source)
  • A quest must be led by someone of centurion rank or higher.†   (source)
  • Hardly the right behavior for a new centurion.†   (source)
  • Frank became very aware of the centurion badge on his shirt, the SPQR tattoo on his forearm.†   (source)
  • I find Hel on the combat field sparring with Tristas while a Combat Centurion looks on.†   (source)
  • I imagine I'll be promoted to centurion too.†   (source)
  • Just a centurion, an augur, and a humble priest doing his best to serve the gods.†   (source)
  • Octavian, as the most senior centurion, turned to Percy.†   (source)
  • At this hour, there isn't a single student or Centurion out.†   (source)
  • She scanned the faces of the centurions, daring them to question her.†   (source)
  • Once she was gone, Octavian turned to the centurions.†   (source)
  • First Cohort: arrest Centurion Dakota and any who stand with him.†   (source)
  • Marcus's gaze flicks to our left, where the Combat Centurion is fast approaching.†   (source)
  • It's just … I was supposed to be in charge of this quest, the centurion, and all.†   (source)
  • A mission has to be led by someone of centurion rank or higher.†   (source)
  • Two centurions advanced, their pila leveled.†   (source)
  • Also, by order of Praetor Reyna, to promote you to the rank of centurion.†   (source)
  • The Centurion nods as I pass, and I'm confused by his lack of disgust.†   (source)
  • Our praetor recognizes that no one below the rank of centurion may lead a quest.†   (source)
  • When I get back out to the field, the Combat Centurion pairs me with Helene.†   (source)
  • If your centurion Dakota has any problem with that, tell him to talk to me.†   (source)
  • He strolls away lazily, saluting the Combat Centurion as he passes.†   (source)
  • She'd been so proud to pin the centurion's badge to his shirt.†   (source)
  • The centurion fell like a sack of rocks.†   (source)
  • Frank glowered at Octavian, but the centurion's face was a mask of polite concern.†   (source)
  • The Scim Centurion has made his way to the foot of the table.†   (source)
  • The Fifth Cohort formed up behind their centurion, uneasily facing their comrades in the First.†   (source)
  • She sounds like a Centurion, and I try to arrange my face in an appropriately sober manner.†   (source)
  • His Roman badges—mural crown, centurion, praetor—glittered on his shirt collar.†   (source)
  • His new medals felt cold against his chest: the centurion's crescent, the Mural Crown.†   (source)
  • Are there rules against centurions dating praetors?†   (source)
  • In the belltower courtyard, Cadets lunge and parry with staffs as a Centurion circles them.†   (source)
  • The centurion stared at Percy with shock, then outrage.†   (source)
  • "There is an opening for centurion," she said.†   (source)
  • I'm coming aboard with two other centurions.†   (source)
  • I have ordered the Centurions to intensify your training to reflect your status as Aspirants.†   (source)
  • His centurion's badge and Mural Crown gleamed on his winter jacket.†   (source)
  • A few Centurions look up from the head table.†   (source)
  • Michael's backup centurions were Leila from the Fourth Cohort and Dakota from the Fifth.†   (source)
  • The centurion collapsed like a sock puppet.†   (source)
  • To my left, one of the Centurions is watching.†   (source)
  • The centurions for the attacking side gathered for a conference.†   (source)
  • The plumes on the centurions' helmets were frozen and ragged.†   (source)
  • The Fifth Cohort had the nicest centurions in camp.†   (source)
  • Their centurions, Dakota and Gwen, exchanged pained looks, like: Here we go again.†   (source)
  • "Centurions," Reyna said, "you and your troops have one hour for dinner.†   (source)
  • But the centurion was a man of faith, and, looking into the eyes of the rabbi, he knew that he was surely in the presence of the Son of God.'†   (source)
  • Octavian's fellow centurion of the First Cohort, Mike Kahale, stood to one side with his arms crossed, glowering with obvious displeasure.†   (source)
  • Centurions!†   (source)
  • Two centurions leaned casually on their javelins, chatting with a tall skinny blond guy in a purple toga.†   (source)
  • He vaulted straight over the centurion's head like an acrobat and slammed the hilt of his gladius into the back of the Roman's head.†   (source)
  • Jason stood about fifty yards away, sword-fighting with a stocky centurion whose lips were stained cherry red, like blood.†   (source)
  • Frank fiddled with his centurion badge.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in running shoes, dark cargo pants, and a Vancouver Winter Olympics T-shirt with his Roman centurion badge pinned to the neck (which seemed either sad or hopeful to Percy, now that they were renegades).†   (source)
  • Frank's old centurion badge was pinned to his shirt, despite the fact that the demigods of the Argo II were now Public Enemies Numbers 1 through 7 back at Camp Jupiter.†   (source)
  • "I'm only a centurion."†   (source)
  • One of the centurions opened his mouth to respond, but for some reason he spoke in Piper's voice: "WAKE UP!"†   (source)
  • "Centurion," said a voice behind him.†   (source)
  • I even killed my own centurion once.†   (source)
  • I pocket the bloodroot serum—it will have to wait—and spend the next two hours attempting to keep the Combat Centurion from beating me to a pulp.†   (source)
  • When the Hand-to-Hand Centurion screams at me for poor technique, I barely hear him, instead considering what will happen to Hel and me.†   (source)
  • Back when Jason was a centurion, his cohort always got the unpopular chore of clearing out their nests.†   (source)
  • Coach Hedge leaped at the centurion.†   (source)
  • The building seems empty other than Veturius and Aquilla, but lzzi and I edge along the walls carefully in case there's a student or Centurion lurking.†   (source)
  • Old memories flit through my head—Mamie Rila teaching me to write my tribal name; the pain of a Centurion's whip tearing into my back that first time; sitting with Helene in the wilds of the north, watching as the sky swirled with impossible ribbons of light.†   (source)
  • He was even suspected of sabotaging a siege engine and getting his own centurion killed during the war games.†   (source)
  • The courtyard is lined with hundreds of people: students, Centurions, and families—including Helene's.†   (source)
  • Centurion of the Fifth Cohort now.†   (source)
  • I admit it's unusual for a camper on probatio to rise directly to the rank of centurion, but I think we can agree … last night was unusual.†   (source)
  • You killed your own centurion.†   (source)
  • My mind flickers to the attack poses Grandfather taught me, the ones the Blackcliff Centurions don't know.†   (source)
  • Bootsteps shuffle and thump around me, Centurions shout orders, and I hear amphitheater and Fourth Trial.†   (source)
  • And she is waking, Centurion.†   (source)
  • He seemed mystified by the badges in his hand —the centurion's mark and the Mural Crown—like he wasn't sure what to do with them.†   (source)
  • Centurion, do what you must.†   (source)
  • The amphitheater is strangely quiet, and I notice then that the stands are filled with students and Centurions, generals and politicians.†   (source)
  • Their lead centurion, a big seventeen-year-old guy named Dakota, was just calling her name—the last one on the roll.†   (source)
  • The Centurions monitor us from beneath the arches that line the courtyard, hands on their whips as they await the arrival of Blackcliff's commandant.†   (source)
  • Along with his senatorial purple-lined toga, his centurion badge, and his augur's knife, he had adopted a new honor: a white cloth mantle over his head, which marked him as pontifex maximus, high priest to the gods.†   (source)
  • "Centurion Zhang," called Octavian.†   (source)
  • I mean Centurion!†   (source)
  • But the Centurions are watching.†   (source)
  • You are the cohort's senior centurion.†   (source)
  • At age eleven, the Centurions throw us out of Blackcliff and into the wilds of the Empire without clothes, food, or weaponry, to survive as best as we can for four years.†   (source)
  • Some demigods will also be able to find their way back from the Underworld—like your friend Centurion Shish kebab.†   (source)
  • The centurion was watching with more interest than concern, as if he were examining one of his stupid gutted teddy bears.†   (source)
  • For good or ill, Frank must lead this quest —so our praetor has decreed that Frank Zhang must be made centurion.†   (source)
  • Centurion Dakota, do your duty!†   (source)
  • Off you go, then, Centurion Zhang.†   (source)
  • Tonight it was she and Frank, as usual, with Percy and Nico and their centurion Dakota, who sat there, Hazel figured, because he felt obligated to welcome the new recruit.†   (source)
  • Centurion, your party is excused.†   (source)
  • Hazel tried to avoid eye contact, but she caught Octavian at the head of the First Cohort smirking at her, looking smug in his plumed centurion's helmet with a dozen medals pinned on his chest.†   (source)
  • The centurion got up reluctantly.†   (source)
  • It was a massive bird's nest—a gryphon's nest—the bottom littered with old pieces of jewelry, an Imperial gold dagger, a dented centurion's badge, and two pumpkin-sized eggs that looked like real gold.†   (source)
  • Centurion Shish kebab?†   (source)
  • "But centurion—".†   (source)
  • Centurion?†   (source)
  • "Form ranks!" the centurions shouted.†   (source)
  • Once they got out of camp, the Fifth Cohort formed two lines behind their centurions, Dakota and Gwen.†   (source)
  • They had an annoying habit of standing halfway inside living people, so that the ranks looked like a blurry photograph, but finally the centurions got them sorted out.†   (source)
  • Well, yes; perhaps; particularly centurions.†   (source)
  • The centurion fell heavily on his breast, clanging the pavement, and Ben-Hur had won.†   (source)
  • Going frankly to the centurion, he said, "I am willing.†   (source)
  • The arms were as frankly delivered, and directly the centurion was ready.†   (source)
  • "Bid the men make haste," said the high-priest to the centurion.†   (source)
  • The centurion yonder is coming with the guard.†   (source)
  • "Thou shalt have mine," the centurion answered.†   (source)
  • Noble men and noble women, ambassadors and centurions, ladies and tradeswomen, and babies who have never seen a cow.†   (source)
  • | | | | | | Health and Fraternity, | | | | | | u og a fe L. | +——+ It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital letters: quinturions, centurions, decurions, eclaireurs [scouts], and the sense of the letters: u og a fe, which was a date, and meant April 15th, 1832.†   (source)
  • A centurion kept the entrance with a guard drawn up full armed under the beautiful marble battlements.†   (source)
  • "Spada knew what these invitations meant; since Christianity, so eminently civilizing, had made progress in Rome, it was no longer a centurion who came from the tyrant with a message, 'Caesar wills that you die.' but it was a legate a latere, who came with a smile on his lips to say from the pope, 'His holiness requests you to dine with him.'†   (source)
  • A centurion kept eye upon the soldiers.†   (source)
  • But hardly were they out before the centurion in charge at the portico appeared, and in the gateway called to Ben-Hur, "Ho, insolent!†   (source)
  • The centurion shouted to them as they went off; Ben-Hur laughed at him, and replied in his own tongue, "If we are dogs of Israel, you are jackals of Rome.†   (source)
  • "The crosses are ready," said the centurion to the pontiff, who received the report with a wave of the hand and the reply, "Let the blasphemer go first.†   (source)
  • When the sunlight broke upon the crucifixion, the mother of the Nazarene, the disciple, and the faithful women of Galilee, the centurion and his soldiers, and Ben-Hur and his party, were all who remained upon the hill.†   (source)
  • The news had been more credible, I grant you, coming from an Egyptian, who is of a race that has forgotten what truth is, or even from an Idumaean, whose people never knew what truth was; but, to make quite certain, I saw a centurion from the Tower this morning, and he told me preparations were going on for the reception; that the armorers were furbishing the helmets and shields, and regilding the eagles and globes; and that apartments long unused were being cleansed and aired as if…†   (source)
  • He became hated by the whole world, and also feared by those he had around him, to such an extent that he was murdered in the midst of his army by a centurion.†   (source)
  • Antoninus had not taken this care, but had contumeliously killed a brother of that centurion, whom also he daily threatened, yet retained in his bodyguard; which, as it turned out, was a rash thing to do, and proved the emperor's ruin.†   (source)
  • Panther, the Roman centurion, polluted her with his genitories.†   (source)
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